H2RC2 was founded by Abdul Hayy L. Holdijk.
As one of the first persons to organise homeopathic training in Egypt (see History of Homeopathy in Egypt), it has been Abdul Hayy's stated goal to spread homeopathy in Egypt at the grassroots level in order to create public demand for quality homeopathic treatment. Abdul Hayy L. Holdijk has been running professional 3 year homeopathic training courses for Egyptian physicians and lay people for the past 18 years. To a large extent this approach has succeeded in producing a large number of qualified homeopaths since starting these courses in 2002 and made the Egyptian public increasingly aware of this complementary treatment modality. In cooperation with other qualified Egyptian homeopaths, he was instrumental in helping to found the Egyptian Society of Homeopathy and the courses he currently teaches are endorsed by the Society as providing the kind of professional training required by international bodies in the field of homeopathy. He is also interested in laying the groundwork for a greater awareness of homeopathy in the Arab Middle East and has lectured primarily in Egypt but also in Lebanon, where he initiated the move to a training program, and Jordan, Oman, and Saudi Arabia. He has the following homeopathic certifications
- C. Hom, and D. Hom, Hahnemann Institute of North America, 1998 (Robin Murphy, N.D.)
- International Certificate of Homeopathy, London College of Homeopathy, 1999, (Peter Chappell)
- Registered Fellow of the Lakeland College, 2011, UK (Ian Watson, Anne Waters)
- Certification in Homeopathy Detox Therapy, Cairo, 2017 (Ton Jansen)
He has attended numerous seminars in the Netherlands, Germany and India, as well as organising seminars for homeopathic lecturers in Cairo including seminars taught by Jan Scholten, Rajan Sankaran, Dinesh Chauhan, Jayesh Shah, Peter Chappell, Ian Watson, Robin Murphy, Drs. Fricker, Banerjea, Dorothy Wallstein, and others.
He has worked as a holistic health consultant to the Ghaly Medical Center, lectured at the Theodor Bilharz Institute, and to the Kasr el Eini Pediatric Hospital in Cairo, Egypt.
Abdul Hayy is a dynamic and demanding teacher who sets very high standards for the teaching of homeopathy at the professional level. While the core of the homeopathic training involves all the elements of classical homeopathic theory, materia medica, and case management, he is very interested in incorporating a clearer concept of consciousness and the notions of self (and Self) into the homeopathic discipline and how this impacts on our whole notion of what needs to be healed. As part of his teachings on self development, he uses a number of different modalities like Shadow, Work and Voice Dialogue as a means of therapy. In addition, he is a qualified Enneagram instructor who regularly gives courses on the Enneagram.
In his other incarnations Abdul Hayy worked full time at both the American University in Beirut for several years, and for 35 years at the American University in Cairo. He was instrumental in setting up the Department of Rhetoric at AUC and finally retired after many years as Associate Chair of the Department of Rhetoric and Composition. In his final 8 years at AUC he focused on developing and teaching a course called "Who am I?: Self and Consciousness Across the Disciplines," which was incorporated in the 1st year Core requirements at AUC and is still being taught there. In addition in his final 3 years, he developed a course called "Integral Living" for final year students, designed to integrate the multiple perspectives of religion, science, social conditioning, and work in preparation for their careers after university. This course too, is still being taught at AUC. In 2014, he received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the American University in Cairo. (for his academic and general Curriculum Vitae, click here)
He has been a follower of a Sufi path for the past 40 years and is interested in studies in religion and consciousness. He regularly lectures on a wide variety of topics including the Enneagram, Shadow Work, Voice Dialague, Love, Dream interpretation, Jekyll and Hyde, Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, and other topics related to consciousness and personality development. He regularly leads spiritual retreats in Lebanon, Egypt, Oman, and the region.
Currently, he is teaching a course called Who Am I?: An inter-disciplinary exploration of self, soul, heart and spirit in Cairo. For more information on this course click on this link.
As a final note: The name Abdul Hayy in Arabic means: Abdul "servant" of the Hayy "Living (God)", the latter being one of the 99 names of God and was given to him by his spiritual Sufi master, Mawlana Sheikh Nazim. For more information about Mawlana Sheikh Nazim and the Naqshbandi tariqa, take a look at a very early draft of a website that was created in cooperation with Sheikh Abdul Jelil Stelzer and which we have not added to in recent years but which we like. Cairo Naqshbandi Link.